After Spacey cracked that unlike Colbert's audience, House of Cards' viewers listen to his character's comments, Colbert said, "You haven't won that Emmy yet, Kev."

Spacey then grabbed Colbert's Emmy from the fireplace mantel and ran off with it, leading the host to chase him around the studio before retrieving it from an audience member the actor handed it off to.

"It's the way things have been going. If you look at the last eight years, the way people have been watching and binging on shows," he said. "And the truth is what I think has been kind of remarkable about how the audience has responded to House of Cards, [when] all 13 [episodes] of the first season came out [at once], is that they are in control. They can watch it how they want to watch it."

Colbert also called Spacey, who's up for an Emmy for outstanding lead actor in a drama series for his work on the show, "the Jackie Robinson of the Internet."